You give up all that respect that was otherwise due to you as a man, in exchange for getting to live an honest life as a woman.

If this was a choice why would anyone choose to give up everything they have worked their whole life for? Would anyone put their life in the spotlight for the world to see for a what’s so blithely labeled a choice? What is the choice anyway? To continue living a lie. Would you stop fighting and just give up?

I do not believe a soul has a gender, but my new path is making my soul complete and happy…I hope my journey sheds some light on the human experience and most importantly helps heal the “socio-religious dogma” of a purely binary gender. Kristin Beck in Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming out Transgender

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